Ok, so here's how it went:
Aug 26th: fly from Hanoi to Bangkok to Phuket, which was looking like it could be a disaster b/c our 1st flight was pushed back 4 hours, which would have made us miss the 2nd flight and get in really late to Phuket, but by some weird stroke of luck we had business class seats on the 1st flight so we had someone fixing it all up for us, putting us on another flight, and ultimately getting us into Phuket on time (we were only on business class b/c economy was full and it was only another 25 bucks, but worked out...